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Harrison L. Rogers, Jr, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(11):1461-1463.

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One of the principal joys of being elected to the office of President of this Association is that it allows me to talk before many audiences of doctors. I would like to assure you that no group of physicians—and in this case, I would also include outstanding laymen—exceeds this one on my personal list of important audiences.

On the subject of being elected, by the way, I would like to give you something to look forward to. I have the honor of being the third President of the AMA from Georgia. It took 37 years for us to elect the first one, in 1884. Fifty-nine years later, the second one took office. And in only 42 more years, here I am. I would just like to point out that if you average those periods of time, you can expect to elect another Georgia President in 46 years. However, we Georgia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Inaugural address, Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 19, 1985.

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